AntholoGIS

Before Microsoft SQL Server 2005 comes up, users of this database wanting to handle spatial data had basically 3 options:

• ESRI ArcSDE - which means purchasing SDE licenses and probably some other ESRI product for data maintenance
• TerraLib - an OpenSource option including TerraView as default user interface. But, just like ArcSDE, TerraLib has its own data access model and won´t permit the use of spatial SQL
• or upgrade to SQL Server 2008 and finally enable spatial support natively from Microsoft

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